RE: Getting Black Balled by a Doc Manager & Filing for Unemployment-Need Advice

["Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>]

Anthony,

Most of us who have been in this profession for a while have experienced
this or something similar.  I have had projects terminated when called in to
the agency's office to talk about my overdue cost of living raise (and while
you're here, please turn in your card key, you're not going back), and by
e-mail when they finally agreed to let me work at home on the day after a
major blizzard (and by the way, please drive across New Jersey to bring back
all company materials on your own time as soon as the roads are clear).

Do not assume that it will reflect badly on you.  Remember that the best
revenge is better pay closer to home.

Loss of a job is a major blow.  If you have access to an Employee Assistance
Program, use it.

Do sit down and carefully document your side of the situation while it's
fresh in your memory.  Then file that record in your own filing cabinet.
Only pull it out if they try to challenge your unemployment claim.  It's a
little suspicious that they asked you to resign, which is usually done just
so they can try to wiggle out of paying unemployment.  If you can, get a
written statement from your witness just in case.

Sometimes these things happen just because Somebody Up There wants to make
use of us someplace else and there is no more rational reason for it than
that.  Betrayal can be a spiritual crisis; if you are active in a community
of faith call on them for support.

You aren't the first, won't be the last.  Darn it.

Look around for that better pay closer to home.

Dori Green

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